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…bills, the triumph of Republican Scott Brown in a special election for the seat formerly held by Sen. Ted Kennedy destroyed the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority. Many Democrats believed this meant that they would have to start over, as Republicans had been demanding.

…election to the Senate of Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who filled the seat that had been temporarily occupied by Democrat Paul Kirk following the death of Ted Kennedy. The election of Brown, who had campaigned actively against the health bill, deprived the Democrats of their filibuster-proof majority and made prospects…

…of the victory of Republican Scott Brown in January 2010 in the special election in Massachusetts held to replace interim senator Paul Kirk (a Democrat), who had been appointed to the seat following the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy—who, ironically, had committed much of his career in government to health…

Dark-horse candidate Scott Brown defeated Kennedy’s presumptive successor, Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley, in a race that shifted the balance in the Senate, depriving the Democrats of the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority they had held since July 2009. In May 2010 the Tea Party exerted its influence again,…

Scott Brown, who had alienated some of his Tea Party supporters by crossing party lines to vote with Democrats on a variety of issues, was defeated by Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. In an election where it was widely believed that Republicans had a reasonable chance…

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Like her Republican opponent, incumbent Scott Brown, who had won the special election to replace Kennedy, Warren campaigned as a defender of the embattled middle class. She confounded accusations of Harvard elitism with her down-to-earth personality and argued the benefits of good government, confronting Brown’s advocacy of rugged individualism with…